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A lot of people consider anything not in the tiobe top 10 to be esoteric (especially for the purposes of enterprise work). Maybe obscure is a better word here?
by ByteJockey 5y ago
A lot of people consider anything not in the tiobe top 10 to be esoteric (especially for the purposes of enterprise work).
Maybe obscure is a better word here?
- mrtranscendence 5y agoObscure is a good choice. I’d probably use niche. Honestly, esoteric could be a good word to describe lisp, except for the fact that it seems to already exist as a term for a category that wouldn’t include lisp.
- ByteJockey 5y agoNiche is fair. Basically, I'm trying to describe "not mainstream".
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- bcrosby95 5y agoBy this metric, Ruby, Swift, Go, Rust, Kotlin, and Typescript are all obscure. Some of these are even more obscure than Lisp.
- ByteJockey 5y agoCorrect. I know plenty of enterprises that do not touch any of those, mostly because of their fear of not being able to find devs familiar with those languages. As discussed elsewhere, it's possible niche might be a better term to describe what I'm talking about here than obscure.